Deborah K

As a longtime, long-suffering grassroots activist, I'd like to post an interesting definition of the how the grassroots works. I'm not in total agreement with the article, but it does a more than adequate job at dispelling the belief by some that the grassroots should be controlled by the campaign. I have bolded some of the more pertinent points.

Let's discuss it, shall we?

How the grassroots works

Any political strategy that depends on broad grassroots support for its success needs to be based on a sound understanding of how the grassroots works. Without such an understanding, the strategy will tend to miscalculate its approach to handling the grassroots, resulting in failure.

After-the-brawl video included in the first link. Surprisingly, Brian Kilmeade defends Mike.

On Fox News Friday, Geraldo Rivera got into it with former CIA official Michael Scheuer over newly surfaced recordings of former president Bill Clinton, in which he claims the day before 9/11 that he could have killed Osama bin Laden.

In the tapes, Clinton says the reason he didn’t go in for the kill is that he would have had to “destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and children, and then I would have been no better than him (bin Laden).”

During the Bundy Ranch saga, in April and May of 2014, a dispute erupted between Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oathkeepers, and various militia regarding a warning that Rhodes had received from intel that the federal government was planning to attack the ranch and the protestors. Rhodes strongly suggested that this intel be taken seriously and he implemented plans to do so, which included informing everyone, and encouraging women and children who were part of the protest to leave the area. A feud broke out, and sides were chosen among those at the ranch, and in the freedom movement.

It was released 3 days ago and it's really well-done, and informative. This could actually be useful in getting more supporters for Rand should he run for office, since he was known as a 'Tea Party' candidate, as is Amash, and other Liberty candidates.

Disclaimer: A small portion of the donations go to MercuryOne, and if I'm not mistaken that is Beck's org., so the producers of this are either affiliated with Beck, or are supporters.

I know this subject comes up periodically, but I think it may be time to revisit term limits for Congress. I'm interested in hearing the opinions of others on this topic. Dr. Paul was for it. And, it would help lesson the control multi-national corporations have on government by not allowing politicians to become entrenched, and therefore, controllable. I think it would be a lot harder to buy politicians if they knew they couldn't make a career out of being one.

I think we can all pretty much agree that producing and saving is one important aspect of achieving and maintaining a healthy economy. And I think we can also agree that multi-national companies moving to China and taking the manufacturing jobs with them has seriously damaged our economy, along with the massive trade deficit with China, of course. On a side note: China scares the crap outta me with their massive military build-up and their admittance to wanting to undermine our role in the world. Not to mention their terrible record on human rights and the environment.

But what I'd like to know is, what needs to happen to get those jobs back? Boycotting products made in China? Do you know how hard that is to do??? Practically everything is made there. We don't even make our own shoes anymore. Boycotting GE, Caterpillar, Apple, Microsoft, Boeing?? We already know we can't count on the gov't to do anything, they're too comfortable in their relationships with the multi-national corps.

[Update: The Cloture Motion will be Friday the 27th, so when you call, please make sure they know what you mean]

“Melt the phones!”
That’s the new battle cry for friends of medical freedom and foes of Obamacare.

The time is now to phone Republican senators and urge them to vote “No” on Majority Leader Harry Reid’s cloture motion, which will come up for a vote on Wednesday. Reid hopes to secure 60 votes to stop debate on the House-passed continuing resolution that funds the federal government and keeps it open beyond the end of this fiscal year (Monday, September 30). The House’s CR finances everything in the federal budget, save for Obamacare, which it mercifully zeroes out just before it wheezes into its next phase: Tuesday’s opening of the so-called health-care exchanges. (Most of these government-run websites for selecting government-designed insurance are rickety, at best. A recently discovered software glitch will make it tough, if not impossible, to determine what price to charge people who sign up for new Obama plans.)

“The only way we can stop Harry Reid is if the entire Republican caucus in the Senate unites and stands with the American people and the House of Representatives,” explains Amy Kremer of the Tea Party Express.

“In order for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to offer an amendment that strikes defund language from the FY14 CR, which has been his publicly stated desire, he must first get bipartisan support on the cloture vote to end debate,” observes Andy Roth, vice president of government affairs for the Club for Growth (several of whose gatherings I have addressed). “If he is successful, he will only need 50 votes to keep Obamacare funding in the budget,” adds Roth, “and thus grow government and further erode economic liberty.”

Defeatist Republicans such as Karl Rove, whose massive 2012 campaign spending was only 1.3 percent effective, are rooting against courageous senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, and Marco Rubio who are trying to defund Obamacare right now. A sad caucus of RINOs, moderates, and invertebrates wants to postpone this fight and oppose Obamacare . . . maybe . . . later. Their slogan? Tomorrow is another day, so perhaps we could stop Obamacare then.

The best argument for this approach is that once implemented, Obamacare will implode and the GOP can ride to the rescue. Well, even then, as they do now, Republicans will face Reid and Obama. They will fall on their scalpels before letting their dream legislation die.

So, why not try to kill it now, and at every possible turn?

Even if Obamacare rolls out after January 1, Republicans will be in a much stronger position to oppose it in 2014 if they can remind Americans that they repeatedly tried to prevent this catastrophe.

“We told you so,” they can tell voters. “We tried everything we could to stop this calamity – from initially voting against it unanimously, to voting in the House to repeal it, to attempting to defund it in September 2013. Now that we all see what a calamity this is, let’s try again to repeal it. If that fails, elect a Republican Congress, and we will do what we can to pry this giant leech from the backs of the American people.”

For now, Republican senators need to hear their phones ring. Urge them to vote “No” on cloture on Wednesday. Tea Party Express offers contact information for GOP senators. “The list below is in the order of priority of who needs to be contacted,” the limited-government group notes. “Please start at the top and work your way down. Just because they don’t represent your state, does not mean their vote doesn’t affect you.”

The late, great Senator Everett Dirksen (R., Ill.) once famously said, “When I feel the heat, I see the light.” May wavering Republican senators soon feel the heat as freedom-loving Americans melt the phones!

Michael Scheuer is the former head of the Bin Laden unit for the CIA. He was with the CIA for 22 years. He is the best-selling author of four books on the subject of foreign policy and the middle east.

Iowa’s Choice: Dr. Paul or U.S. Bankruptcy, More Wars, and Many More Dead Soldiers, and Marines

Two recent experiences underlined for me what Iowans will vote for next week in the field of foreign policy if they do not vote for Dr. Ron Paul. On Christmas day, I heard Chris Wallace’s program on FOX. He had a guest -- Mr. Charles Lane -- who made the false and scurrilous claim that Dr. Paul’s foreign policy was the same as that of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s America-hating policy, a doctrine that appealed to Barack Obama for more than twenty years and which
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I hear by ask, and nominate that our own "Ron Paul Hawaii" Micheal run for president in 2020 :)
He by far represents the liberty movement, and has sacrificed much more than any of us to try and preserve our nation.

Here is the story:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/01/politics/senate-extends-iran-sanctions/
here is the roll call (H R 6297):
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2016/roll577.xml
Thomas was the ONLY one to vote against it.

Art with humor and a political message can say alot. The political cartoon, or editorial cartoon as wiki likes to call it, has a great history. I love these things and would like to see what you all come up with.
http://www.davegranlund.com
Post new ones you find, your favorites, or even draw and upload one yourself!

I don't know about you all but I'm in tears out of happiness!! This has been just an AMAZING day! We again wrote history!! I want to thank each of you from the bottom of my heart for choosing freedom! I love you guys!

Ron Paul & Rand Paul: News & Discussion

It's not over yet. They're still after Ron Paul. Don't read this on a full stomach. -
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/09/how-the-alt-right-became-racist-part-2-long-before-trump-white-nationalists-flocked-to-ron-paul/
Unfortunately the libertarians aren't representing well in the comments. More alt-righters there than real libertarians and they're predictably either impenetrably nerdy or...

2016 Presidential Election

WIKILEAKS JUST DID IT ! They connected Clintons to pedophile ring. Developing...
Laura Silsby! It is happening.
FBI / Wikileaks are working together. The_Donald sub reddit is leading the charge.
BE A PART OF HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go to twitter - Wikileaks account. I can't access on work computer. I saw the feed on mobile twitter.

I've spent the last 30+ hours on YouTube and Fedbook watching this insane meltdown. They've gone from criticising Trump for saying he won't accept election results, to themselves not accepting the results. It's racist that Trump wants to build a wall, but now they want to build a wall separating CA, OR, WA and NV from the rest of the US. Oh yeah and millions of racist messages saying $#@! white...

A lot of great information has been posted in recent weeks, but it's scattered about the forum.
How about we aggregate it all in one place, for easy access?
Post what you got (repetition is fine, having multiple sources is a good thing)
*material for jokes, witticisms, insults, memes, etc also welcome, in addition to policy issues
:toady: is the beginning of the end of...

Three Million Votes Were Cast By Illegal Aliens
Millions of votes were cast by illegal aliens in the recent 2016 election held in the United States. Since they are held to determine the government of the United States, participation in these elections has traditionally been limited to citizens of the United States. However, many commentators and human rights advocacy groups see this policy...

From the start it were only Hillary Rodham Clinton and Donald Trump in the spotlight (even in Europe they get shoved down our throat), and because nobody will vote for any politician they don’t know, it’s the media that decides who wins. Last July 26, Hillary accepted the official nomination, while a few days earlier Trump became the nominee for the Democrat-Republicans.
You cannot seriously...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gunman-charged-threatening-dc-restaurant-hit-fake-news-030914425.html
The headline: "Gunman charged after threatening DC restaurant hit by fake news"
So this is their excuse to shut down alt media. Don't give them excuses, people.:mad:

Ok, let me explain my rationale for posting this in Us Politics.
In light of the electoral college whining, it's very clear not too many
people know what purpose the EC serves or why it was put in place.
Crowder put out a great video debunking EC myths and uses quotes from the
founders to explain why it was put in place.
Which led me to conclude, many people quote the US Constitution...

With Attacks On The Rise, Sens. Casey and Scott Introduce Bipartisan Anti-Semitism Awareness Act
(posted in entirety)
Washington, DC– Today, U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Tim Scott (R-SC) introduced the bipartisan Anti-Semitism Awareness Act in an effort to combat increasing incidents of anti-Semitism on college campuses nationwide. The Senators joined together to ensure the U.S....

Natural Health News has requested a retraction/apology over the Washignton Post's Russian fake news story and threatened a law suit.
Now Naked Capitalism has sent a lawyer letter to the Washington Post
http://fakenews.news/2016/12/05/naked-capitalism-demands-apologyretraction-washington-post-fake-news-story/

Saw this ICO which is novel
https://chronobank.io/
Labour-Hour Stable Coins
The first stage of our project is to create the financial backbone of ChronoBank.io: national Labour-Hour (LH) tokens.
LH are linked to average hourly wages in the host country and are backed by a real labour force from big recruitment and labour-hire companies.
Labour is abundant enough for everyone to have...

US avoided a D-DAY (10/11/2016)
My wife and my daughter had a trip to North Europe from 9/23 to 10/2. I think it was arranged by the feds(FBI and DEA). To my experience, it used to be arranged with murder plot. (Both on me and my relatives) Also if the murder plot had been successful, there would be big events taking place to distract public's attention from a small killing case in...

Bitcoin Chart

Living Free and Healthy

This fall the Indians on a remote reservation asked their new Chief Oyarde if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.
Since he was a chief in a modern society, he’d never learned the old tribal secrets. He couldn’t look at the sky to predict what the winter was going to be like.
"It's going to be a very cold winter."
So just to be on the safe side, Oyarde told his tribe that the...

It appears freedom living is safer than over grooming:
Removing Your Pubic Hair Is Linked To A Heightened Risk Of STIs
But researchers aren’t quite sure why.
12/07/2016
Anna Almendrala Senior Healthy Living Editor, The Huffington Post

So, after half a century of turning the country upside down to make everything "safe", banning any industry or machinery that gives off more than unicorn farts for emissions, a million health fatwas of all sorts, total war declared on some drugs and spending insane amounts of money on "health care" the result is:
Life Expectancy In U.S. Drops For First Time In Decades, Report Finds
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The power of positive thinking: Optimism can fend off cancer, heart disease and infection for EIGHT years
By Harry Pettit For Mailonline
Published: 16:00 EST, 7 December 2016
Having a more positive outlook on life may help people live longer.
A new study has revealed that women who are optimistic are less likely to die from cancer, heart disease, stroke, infection, and several other...

Education & Thought Power

...lately i've been hearing a lot republicrats with microphones working their holes about 'fake news'...as if 'fake news' is something new...:rolleyes:
...'the attack on pearl harbor' fascinates me...i was wondering, among other things, if any of you had any 'hard evidence' of united states attacks on japanese ships, etc., prior to 'the attack on pearl harbor'...
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Highly renowned intellectual thinker Richard Spencer once said that the Alt-Right is a wide spectrum of beliefs. I think I have unfairly lumped them into one group and treated them all like they are the same. I came to this comclusion after doing some more research on people who identify as alt-right. So lets take a look at the different types of people in the alt-right. Please tell me if...

Some of you may or may not be surprised by this, But I was a supporter of the public option, back when it was still a part of the health insurance bill.
2 facts about the public option as it was written
1. It's optional to be enrolled
2. It's optional to pay for it.
So, In general, to receive public option benefits, you would have to pay a premium, just like any other insurance...